Christine Mason (she/her) is a fourth-year Bachelor of Nursing student at the University of New Brunswick and a research assistant to the Lawless Lab. Her research interests focus on community health, equitable access to care, mental health, and sexual and reproductive health.
Collins is a second-year nursing student at the University of New Brunswick interested in reproductive health, healthcare equity, and reproductive justice. Collins is excited to develop research skills and contribute to research that supports more equitable healthcare experiences.
Chloë is a second year JD student at Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia. Prior to starting law school, they completed their BA at Dalhousie University with honours in Psychology, and their MSc at Saint Mary's University in Applied Forensic Psychology. Their research focuses on the experiences of incarcerated and criminalized people in Canada and correctional policies for gender-affirming care.
Jacky has been a registered nurse in New Brunswick since 2014. Her past nursing experience includes multiple areas of patient population care such as surgical, gynecology, stroke, geriatrics, family practice and general medicine as well as an extensive background of providing nursing education. Since 2019 she has been involved in sexual assault nursing which is also known as forensic nursing. Currently she is completing a Master of Nursing at the University of New Brunswick in the research stream with a focus on the experiences of survivors of sexual assault and intimate partner violence.
Allison is a Registered Midwife and an Associate Professor of Teaching in the Midwifery Program at UBC, where she supports the learning of aspiring midwives through a social justice, anti-colonial and anti-capitalist lens. She is a queer, single parent, a quilter and a lover of homegrown tomatoes.
Allison's academic work is grounded in social and reproductive justice and spans both midwifery education and health equity. She is currently pursuing doctoral studies at UBC's Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice. Her research examines the experiences of parenting while incarcerated in British Columbia and the Mother Baby Program in BC's provincial system.
Julia Belanger is a graduate student in the Interdisciplinary Studies program as a SSHRC scholar. She is a lawyer and advocate for access to justice and mental health and wellness in the legal profession. She will be working with Claire Heggie, Dr. Martha Paynter, and Dr. Sarah-jane Nussbaum on a research project in the availability of, access to and lived experience of conjugal and private family visits in prisons in Canada.
Laylla Veridiana is a nurse and PhD candidate in Nursing at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. Her research focuses on prison health, incarcerated women, health inequalities, and social determinants of health. In 2027, she will join the University of New Brunswick as an exchange student and the Lawless Lab, under the supervision of Professor Martha Paynter, to further explore connections between prison health and reproductive justice.